This day in history: Women got the right to vote!

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(08-18-2015, 12:21 PM)GMDino Wrote: And some areas did allow women to vote before that.  I think Oregon was one but i didn't go look it up again.

Yea, states can pretty much let whoever they want vote. Many states did allow women to vote prior to 1920. Some used to let noncitizens vote as a way to attract immigrants to their sparsely populated states.

If Maryland wanted to, they could let 15 year olds vote for the President.

We now have more safeguards against restrictions on who can't vote. In the 1790s, it was basically just Protestant. white, male property owners. Ben Franklin said about this: if a man with an ass can vote but no longer can once his ass dies, who was the right to vote, the man or the ass?